posted by
orichalcum at 11:06am on 22/02/2009
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First of all, some minor venting and warnings before I get to the happy cute stuff:
Irony of the Day: So, two weeks ago I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Expedia trying to get a bill refunded. At the end of that call, they assured me it was all fixed. So now, on our credit card bill, we discover $1000 worth of bills from Expedia, not refunded, and online, there's no evidence that they canceled the relevant flight. However, I can't call them today to complain about this, because we have run over our cellphone minutes, running up a big charge...because of the 2.5 hours I spent talking to Expedia. Also, apparently I can't change my cellphone plan to a more expensive one without contracting for 2 years, which i don't want to do. And the athletic club back in Evanston is still charging me despite numerous phone conversations - not that I can yell at them today - because of aforementioned issue.
OK. Banishing annoyance by invoking cute stuff:
Mac is Less Profound Than He Thinks: So, Mac clearly basked in the approval from his earlier philosophical commentary that "Sometimes you have to wait for the next bus" and has been using the phrase frequently. Yesterday, we were driving up a highway (280) with some cows on it, which got him very excited. After a while, we left the herd behind.
"Where are the cows, Mommy?"
"There aren't any cows over there anymore, Mac, sorry."
"Oh. Sometimes you have to wait for the next cow."
Somehow this fails to rise to the same level. :)
Mac is A Good Scientist: At school recently, they made dinosaur fossils by putting their chosen prints into white plastery playdough and baking it. Most of the other kids had little paw prints and things. Mac announced to us, showing off his three-clawed narrow print, "I made a bird fossil! A bird dinosaur!" CP, who's been emphasizing that birds come from dinosaurs since Mac could crawl, was extremely proud of his son's knowledge of evolution.
Mac is Creative: Mac grabbed Eowyn's tennis ball yesterday and put it on top of an empty paper towel tube we had given her as a toy. "Look, Mommy and Daddy, ice cream!" Everyone was amused except for Eowyn, who rather wanted her ball/ice cream back.
He dragged Jenny, the polar bear I was given when three days old, who I've passed onto Mac, into our bed this morning. "Mommy, we need to tuck Jenny in!" Amusingly, tucking stuffed animals in apparently requires covering their mouth completely. We'll have to be careful with the Manticore here.
Irony of the Day: So, two weeks ago I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Expedia trying to get a bill refunded. At the end of that call, they assured me it was all fixed. So now, on our credit card bill, we discover $1000 worth of bills from Expedia, not refunded, and online, there's no evidence that they canceled the relevant flight. However, I can't call them today to complain about this, because we have run over our cellphone minutes, running up a big charge...because of the 2.5 hours I spent talking to Expedia. Also, apparently I can't change my cellphone plan to a more expensive one without contracting for 2 years, which i don't want to do. And the athletic club back in Evanston is still charging me despite numerous phone conversations - not that I can yell at them today - because of aforementioned issue.
OK. Banishing annoyance by invoking cute stuff:
Mac is Less Profound Than He Thinks: So, Mac clearly basked in the approval from his earlier philosophical commentary that "Sometimes you have to wait for the next bus" and has been using the phrase frequently. Yesterday, we were driving up a highway (280) with some cows on it, which got him very excited. After a while, we left the herd behind.
"Where are the cows, Mommy?"
"There aren't any cows over there anymore, Mac, sorry."
"Oh. Sometimes you have to wait for the next cow."
Somehow this fails to rise to the same level. :)
Mac is A Good Scientist: At school recently, they made dinosaur fossils by putting their chosen prints into white plastery playdough and baking it. Most of the other kids had little paw prints and things. Mac announced to us, showing off his three-clawed narrow print, "I made a bird fossil! A bird dinosaur!" CP, who's been emphasizing that birds come from dinosaurs since Mac could crawl, was extremely proud of his son's knowledge of evolution.
Mac is Creative: Mac grabbed Eowyn's tennis ball yesterday and put it on top of an empty paper towel tube we had given her as a toy. "Look, Mommy and Daddy, ice cream!" Everyone was amused except for Eowyn, who rather wanted her ball/ice cream back.
He dragged Jenny, the polar bear I was given when three days old, who I've passed onto Mac, into our bed this morning. "Mommy, we need to tuck Jenny in!" Amusingly, tucking stuffed animals in apparently requires covering their mouth completely. We'll have to be careful with the Manticore here.
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The Mac-cute rocks, though. hee. Sometimes you have to wait for the next cow :)
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Also, I think the Mac cow comment was hilarious, if not necessarily profound.
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Mostly, it's just frustrating, because we had been staying well under our limit, and then the last two months have just been full of things like the stupid Expedia call.
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